Health care providers received a big win on December 5, 2016, when the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued a decision granting summary judgment to the American Hospital Association . . .

In 2006, Benjamin Carter, a former Kellogg, Brown & Root Services, Inc. ("KBR") employee, brought a qui tam action against KBR, claiming that KBR had fraudulently billed the Government for water purification services in Iraq.

On October 31, 2014, the Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS"), Office of Inspector General ("OIG") published its Work Plan for Fiscal Year 2015 ("2015 Work Plan") to provide an annual summary of new and ongoing OIG audit activities related to HHS programs.

On March 6, a U.S. district court judge, sitting by designation in the District of Columbia, granted a relator's motion to compel and ordered defendants to produce documents constituting the results of the defendants' internal investigations,

A discussion relating to the health insurers that offer qualified health plans on the new state insurance exchanges and receive advance payments of the new federal premium tax credit should prepare to be subject to scrutiny for potential violations of the False Claims Act.